The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-13
BLAINE VS.. CLEVELAND.
THAT Is TO BE THE TICKET IN
1SSS.
The Friends of the "Man From
Maine Are Not Afraid Of
Shes man.

w ASHlNGTON, March IL. - ne
Star says: The gossip in. political
quarters today turns up the posi-
bilities OF the Sherman boom. His
trip to the South is conceded to be
for the purpose of giving the boom a
chance TO develop quickly under the
iuhuence of the warm Southern sun.
Messrs. Malone aud John ID. Wise
express the opinion that John
Sherman can carry the State of Vir-
ginia, both at the nominating con-
vention and afterward as TO its
electoral vote. The Ohio chieftain
himself publicly expresses the opin-
ion that the solid South may be di-
vided in the next Presidential CON
test. His friends say that during
his trip he will throw himself among
the Southern people and dispel the
erroneous impression that he las no
warmth in his com position. They
expect him TO thaw out in the
South and gain much in popu-
larity. They confidently expect
that he will get the support of the
delegates of several Of the Southern
States in the convention. The
Blaine men say they are not afraid
of Mr.. Sherman. Representative
Brady, who was Mahone's first lieu
tenant for SO long, and who has been
a Republican leader in Virginia
longer than has Malone, does not
agree with him that the State could
be carried by the Ohio man.
Blaine, he says, can carry Virginia
against any one the Democrats can
put up. There is an enthusiasm
aroused at the mention of his name.
Not SO, he says, with Sherman. He
could not carry the State. Any one
who says he can does not know the
Southern people. Mr.. Blaine's
friends say that Blaine is not push
ing himself to the front, but that he
is there, and is going to stay. What
ever work others may do meanwhile,
they say, it will be found at the
convention that the 'Plumed knight
will be head and shoulders
above every body else. They
contend that the only question is
whether he wants the nomination.
Then they intimate that If Mr.. Cieve-
land is to lead the Democracy again
he will want to enter the field AGAINST
him. when all talk is over it may
be boiled down to the quite general
belief that Blaine and Cleveland are
10 be pitteu against each other again.
Democratic politicians concede that
they cannot get away from the man
of destiny; that Mr.. Cleveland will
stick. One of them likened him the
other day to tar baby; whether you
hit him or hug him he sticks. The
politicians are not better satisfied,
but more tolerant with him. They
are inclined to shut their eyes and
accept the inevitable. Some leading
with whom a Star re-
porter has talked, are a little uncer-
tain as to their own feelings as re-
CARDS the President. They say he
has not done in the way of civil SER
vice reform all that may be hoped
for, yet that he has done all that he
was positively pledged to do, and they
do not know where they could find a
man who could do more. He has
gone further, they say, than any Re
publican thought he would 60, and
while you may find one who will say
he has been schemlng you will fud
fifty Republicans who are frightened
because they think he has done too
WELL They estimate that if Mr.. AL
lison were nominated against him he
would lose about half the mugwump
vote, possibly more. Most Of the
Republicans, except Blaine, could
take some mugwumps from Cleve-
land. IT Blaine should be nominated,
however, they say Cleveland would
get a much larger mugwump vote
than he did before"